David Mason

Biography

David Mason’s books include Sea Salt: Poems of a Decade, 2004-2014 (Red Hen, 2014) and Davey McGravy: Tales to Be Read Aloud to Children and Adult Children (Paul Dry, 2015). As a librettist, Mason collaborated with Lori Laitman on her opera The Scarlet Letter, which will premiere at Opera Colorado in 2016. Poet Laureate of Colorado from 2010 to 2014, he teaches at Colorado College.

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POETRY / Winter 2016

To Hygeia

By David Mason

Goddess, I have watched your motions gratify the world.
Votaries of all casts and ages, genders, voices
bow to you as they must, for nothing follows without you.

POETRY / Spring 2013

Chrismata

By David Mason

How could they know,
how could anyone know
you were not formed by origins,

POETRY / Spring 2013

The Soul Fox

By David Mason

My love, the fox is in the yard.
The snow will bear his print a while,
then melt and go, but we who saw

POETRY

Poetry Poster #12: David Mason

By David Mason